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| To get revenge on Suzume for what she did to Saijin maybe. To reject someone who has helped them actually |
| To help them confront their trauma and move on (which is part of the message of the movie). None of the two is 'good' or 'evil'. Yin Yang doesn't mean good vs evil, is just two forces - they can be anything, for example, male and female, fear and courage, love and hatred, and yes good and evil - but as forces that exist into a whole, not as a conflict or something opposing each other. So Sadaijin isn't bad just like Daijin isn't good. Sadaijin is Daijin's superior though. He comes to pick Daijin up and makes him go back to his duty. So his power may have to do with that - the fact that the aunt and Suzume didn't open their hearts and confront their pain and trauma, made him force them to. At the same time, because he is they indeed are representations of Yin and Yang, they have passive abilities. Daijin can garner admiration and gives blessings (all of Suzume's encounters and help she got from strangers, are the result of Daijin helping her reach her destination). So, Sadaijin, representing Yin, it would make sense that his passive abilities work more on the negative emotion side of things... but is not a curse or an evil ability, is for the better, because while the aunt said some hurtful words, and so did Suzume, in the end opening up to each other and releasing those bottled up emotions, got them closer to each other. |
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kronopy said: To help them confront their trauma and move on (which is part of the message of the movie). None of the two is 'good' or 'evil'. Yin Yang doesn't mean good vs evil, is just two forces - they can be anything, for example, male and female, fear and courage, love and hatred, and yes good and evil - but as forces that exist into a whole, not as a conflict or something opposing each other. So Sadaijin isn't bad just like Daijin isn't good. Sadaijin is Daijin's superior though. He comes to pick Daijin up and makes him go back to his duty. So his power may have to do with that - the fact that the aunt and Suzume didn't open their hearts and confront their pain and trauma, made him force them to. At the same time, because he is they indeed are representations of Yin and Yang, they have passive abilities. Daijin can garner admiration and gives blessings (all of Suzume's encounters and help she got from strangers, are the result of Daijin helping her reach her destination). So, Sadaijin, representing Yin, it would make sense that his passive abilities work more on the negative emotion side of things... but is not a curse or an evil ability, is for the better, because while the aunt said some hurtful words, and so did Suzume, in the end opening up to each other and releasing those bottled up emotions, got them closer to each other. holy shit!, masterpiece explanation |
| I really like many of the interesting readings here. But I am still not sure if the scene itself was intended to have any of those effects. 1. Sadaijin wanted to bring the negative emotions of Suzume and Tamaki out in the open in order to repair their relationship That was the outcome of their argument, sure. But what was the motivation for Sadaijin to make that happen? Why does Sadaijin care about these two at all? Sadaijin just popped out of nowhere, and after this scene he never really contributes anything to the characters and their relationships, just the plot. Did he really act from a place of love for the characters? 2. Sadaijin wanted to "test" Suzume Again, why would Sadaijin want to do this? What is he testing for, exactly? Does a person's "character" or relationship struggles play a role in sealing the doors? There wasn't any indication of this when Suzume was sealing the other doors earlier. 3. Sadaijin/Daijin, who are spiritual beings of an unknowable nature ("yin and yang"), can influence the mortals in strange ways, either positively or negatively This is the most believable explanation for their possible motives, in my opinion. But Sadaijin and Daijin never have this kind of effect on any other characters at other points in the story. Their actions throughout the whole movie are to provoke and help the main characters on their mission, and any changes that the characters go through come from the process of accomplishing that mission. --- I don't really think any of these really mesh with what actually happens in the movie. Unfortunately, I just think the writer wanted to tackle Suzume's and Tamaki's relationship at this point in the story, but didn't think it was happening naturally no matter how he wrote it, so he had to resort to a spiritual possession to force the conversation. I don't see how this "fixes the problem", and I don't even think there is a problem to fix. By this point there were several scenes already where Tamaki was worried about and frustrated with Suzume, so while the exact words may have come across a little extreme, it would not have been a reach to have Tamaki blow up on Suzume here. Tamaki even admits in a later scene that she did harbor those feelings of resentment. The scene would have worked fine even without Sadaijin interfering. I had this constant feeling throughout the entire movie that the story and characters were pushed around in whatever direction as needed without a satisfying explanation, and I think this scene fell into the same pattern. |
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